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  • From: Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com>
  • To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Lawrence Lessig <lessig AT pobox.com>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>, Mike Godwin <mgodwin AT wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>, Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] [Commons-l] Requirements for a strong copyleft license
  • Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:05:57 +1100

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2007 4:52 AM, Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com> wrote:
>> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>> I do not believe there is any point to having a copyleft license for
>>> media which isn't strong. Does anyone here disagree?
>> I do, my photos are by-sa but newspaper using them for illustration doesn't
>> have to be (that's my intention when licensing, at least them), as long as
>> the photos themselves are labeled with the proper attribution and
>> licensing.
>
> Greetings. Why not use the cc-by license instead? It has the same
> attribution behavior as cc-by-sa.

Because I want to allow for modifications: paint on my photos and modify
them to make posters or desktop backgroun ds, make an animation or a
slideshow of them, improve my panoramas of which I post the "source" (a .xcf
gimp file)... and in those cases I would like the copyleft rule apply.

J





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